Agile methodologies like SCRUM and Extreme Programming appear to solve this to an extent but again not very good. You would like to deliver as soon as possible with the best quality but you need to do all the due diligence and follow the processes and that eats up a lot of time. Most of the times requirements are not clear and neither the end user nor you can help it. $ sudo apt install php7.1-cli php7.1-xml php7.Many a times I have felt that development of applications takes a hell lot of time and by the time the development is over some requirements change. $ sudo apt install php7.0-cli php7.0-xml php7.0-mysql $ sudo apt install php5.6-cli php5.6-xml php5.6-mysql Now you can install most required PHP modules as per your requirements.

To install any PHP modules, simply specify the PHP version and use the auto-completion functionality to view all modules as follows.

You can install different version of PHP using the below commandsįor Apache $ sudo apt install php5.6 įor Ngix $ sudo apt install php5.6-fpm $ sudo service apache2 restart // restart apache to get it in action $ sudo a2enmod php7.0 // enable the desired version You can achieve that by below commands $ sudo a2dismod php5.6 // disable the loaded version I already tried composer update -ignore-platform-reqsīut I still I get another error, which is again related to the above problem.Īs stated in the question you already have both the versions of PHP on your system, As Laravel uses the cli version you need to enable 7.X and disable 5.X. 'post-autoload-dump': artisan package:discover' 'post-create-project-cmd': artisan key:generate' NOTE : I'm not allowed to uninstall previous version of php This package requires php >=7.0.0 but your PHP version (5.6.33) does not satisfy that requirement. The response it Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages. Here when I execute php -v, it says it has php7īut when I try to execute composer update

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